Motivational Quotes

Failure

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

- Tracy, Brian

Best Quotes about Failure

I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim